Python String Function Examples

When you operate on a python string, it will create a new python string based on the original string. The original string value will not be changed. This article will list some python string operation example.

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1. Split Python String.

The string’s split() function will split a python string to a words list.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'
# the python string split() function will split the string and return a string word list.
>>> words_list = str_1.split()
>>> words_list
['python', 'is', 'a', 'good', 'programming']
# but the original string will not be changed.
>>> str_1
'python is a good programming'

2. Join Python String.

The join() function will join a python list to a string use provided separator. This function will return a new string object.

# join the string list elements use different separator.
>>> " ".join(words_list)
'python is a good programming'

>>> ",".join(words_list)
'python,is,a,good,programming'

>>> " : ".join(words_list)
'python : is : a : good : programming'
# the original list is not changed. 
>>> words_list
['python', 'is', 'a', 'good', 'programming']

3. String Supper Function.

This method will change all string character to upper case.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'
>>> str_2 = str_1.upper()

>>> str_2
'PYTHON IS A GOOD PROGRAMMING'

>>> str_1
'python is a good programming'

# check whether the string is uppercase or not.
>>> str_2.isupper()
True

>>> str_1.isupper()
False

4. String Capitalize Function.

Uppercase the first character of the string.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'
>>> str_2 = str_1.capitalize()
>>> str_2
'Python is a good programming'

5. String Title Function.

Make each word’s first character uppercase in the string.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'
>>> str_2 = str_1.title()
>>> 
>>> str_1
'python is a good programming'
>>> 
>>> str_2
'Python Is A Good Programming'

6. String Count Function.

Return the provided string exist count number in original string.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'
>>>
# get provided string count in the source string. 
>>> str_1.count('g')
3

7. String Find Function.

Get the provided string’s index in the original string.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'

>>> str_1.find('yt')
1
# if the target string dose not exist, then return -1.
>>> str_1.find('java')
-1

8. String startswith & endswith Function.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'

>>> str_1.startswith('python')
True

>>> str_1.startswith('Python')
False

>>> str_1.endswith('python')
False

9. String Replace Function.

>>> str_1 = 'python is a good programming'
>>> 

# replace word 'python' with 'java'
>>> str_2 = str_1.replace('python', 'java')
>>> 
>>> str_2
'java is a good programming'
>>> 
>>> str_1
'python is a good programming'

10. Remove String Beginning Or Ending White Space.

Python string’s strip(), lstrip() and rstrip() function will remove string’s leading or tailing whitespace.

>>> str_1 = '  python is a good programming   '
>>> 
# remove both beginning and endding white space.
>>> str_2 = str_1.strip()
>>> 
>>> str_2
'python is a good programming'
>>> 
>>> str_1 = '  python is a good programming   '
# remove beginning white space.
>>> str_2 = str_1.lstrip()
>>> 
>>> str_2
'python is a good programming   '
# remove endding white space.
>>> str_2 = str_1.rstrip()
>>> 
>>> str_2
'  python is a good programming

11. Get String Length.

The len() method will return the string character size. But it is a system built-in method.

>>> str_1 = ' python '
>>> 

# the string length contains the white space in the original string.
>>> len(str_1)
8